Working with manufacturing perspectives

Teamcenter presents manufacturing data in views, each of which provides its own specific way of managing or modifying data. The views provide an environment where, for example, you can construct processes and operations, relate additional relevant information, view different alternatives or studies, and collaborate with others who are working on the same information.

For common use cases, Teamcenter provides you with several collections of views, organized in collaboration contexts (CCs), that group the views that you need to perform common tasks. These CCs behave similarly to the Multi-BOM Management perspective.

For all Multi-BOM Management CCs, you can:

• Add these perspectives to the rich client navigation pane.

• View all loaded structures in the Open Items list and open structures from this list. If the structure is part of a collaboration context, the name of that collaboration context is shown in brackets behind the structure.

• Unload open structures by clicking the Unload All button in the Open Items list, or unload a single structure by right-clicking it and choosing Unload.

You can switch between perspectives using the button. When you switch, the same structures are loaded in each perspective. You can see these structures in the Collaboration Context Tree view. Teamcenter displays the structures in the primary views of the perspective. If there is no suitable primary view in the perspective, the structure is listed in the Open Items list and the Collaboration Context Tree view from which you can activate it.

Secondary views are completely new between perspectives so the state of the secondary views are not the same when switching perspectives.

When you send an object from another application using the Send To→Multi-BOM Management shortcut menu command, Teamcenter opens the last Multi-BOM Management perspective that you used. If you have a perspective open in the current session and send a structure to Multi-BOM Management, the structure opens in the current Multi-BOM Management perspective.

Each primary view is assigned a number which represents the view regardless of the Multi-BOM Management perspective. Views with the same number are the same view.

In the figure, the view tooltip in every perspective in which item 000015 is open shows Product #2.

By default, you can open 10 views for each type of primary structure view. Your administrator can change this number in the MEMaxOpenViewsSameType preference. The view remains open as long as it is open in any of the Multi-BOM Management perspectives. As long as there is still one instance of the view open, when you activate that view, it opens in the same state (for example, expansion state). After the last instance is closed, activating the view opens the structure, but the expansion state is lost. However, the data is still loaded, so re-expanding is fast.

Your administrator can add new perspectives to Teamcenter.

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